Board game activities
92 activities found
Boggle
Shake a grid of lettered dice and race the clock to spot as many words as possible by linking adjacent letters — longer words score more points in this fast and frenzied word game.
Brass: Birmingham
Build industries and trade networks in the English Midlands during the Canal and Railway eras — connect cities to sell coal, iron, and manufactured goods in this deep economic network-building masterpiece.
Acquire
Found and merge hotel chains on a grid — buy shares before chains grow large, trigger mergers to cash out, and hold the most valuable shares when the board fills in this elegant economic classic.
Agricola
Farm a small plot of land, feed your family every harvest, and expand your homestead with fields, stables, and rooms — a tense worker-placement game where every resource and action counts.
Arkham Horror
Cooperatively investigate the Lovecraftian city of Arkham, sealing interdimensional gates before an Ancient One awakens — manage investigators' sanity and health as monsters and doom escalate across multiple boards.
Azul
Draft colourful tiles from a central pool to decorate your palace wall — complete rows and columns for points while managing leftover tiles, which cost you penalty points at round's end.
Board Game Café Visit
Browsing a wall of hundreds of board games at a dedicated café, picking one nobody in the family has tried, and learning the rules together over coffee and snacks — a social outing that turns game night into a destination.
Chess
A timeless strategy board game where two players outmaneuver each other across 64 squares — play a friend, challenge an AI, or sharpen your tactics by solving puzzles solo.
Dominoes
Match and extend a chain of rectangular tiles divided into two halves, each bearing zero to six pips, blocking opponents and emptying your hand first to score — dominoes is one of the world's most widely played games, simple enough for any age, deep enough for serious competitive play.
Mahjong
Draw and discard decorated tiles to build a winning hand of sets and pairs before your opponents, reading the table to block rivals and anticipate what they need — mahjong combines memory, probability, and sharp attention to the discards of three opponents in a four-player game steeped in centuries of tradition.